Ipai language

E13261

Native American language Yuman language indigenous language of North America

The Ipai language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Kumeyaay (Ipai) people of southern California and northern Baja California.

Aliases (1)

Tipai language ×3

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Native American language → Yuman language → indigenous language of North America →
alternateName	Kumeyaay (in some classifications) → Northern Diegueño →
closeTo	Diegueño language → Kumeyaay language → Tipai language →
country	Mexico → United States →
endangeredStatusReason	language shift to English → language shift to Spanish →
ethnicGroup	Kumeyaay (Ipai) people →
glottologCode	ipai1238 →
hasDialect	Central Ipai → Northern Ipai → Southern Ipai →
hasLinguisticFeature	agglutinative morphology → complex aspect system → rich verbal morphology → use of clitics → verb-final word order tendency →
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length → ejective consonants → glottalized consonants →
ISO639-3	nai →
languageFamily	Hokan (proposed) language family → Yuman language family →
partOf	Kumeyaay–Ipai–Tipai language complex →
region	northern Baja California → southern California →
revitalizationEffort	community language classes → dictionary development → documentation projects → orthography standardization →
spokenBy	Ipai people → Kumeyaay people →
status	endangered language →
subclassOf	Delta–California Yuman language → Kumeyaay language continuum →
traditionalTerritory	San Diego County, California → northern Baja California, Mexico →
usedFor	oral tradition → songs → storytelling →
usedIn	traditional Kumeyaay ceremonies →
writingSystem	Latin script →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Yuman–Cochimí languages → Yuman–Cochimí languages ("Tipai language") →	hasLanguage
Yuman language family → Yuman language family ("Tipai language") →	hasMemberLanguage
Ipai language ("Tipai language") →	closeTo
Ipai people →	language